Churn.



No. 646,430. Patented Apr. 3, i900.

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KINCHEON XV. HARGROVE, OF BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,430, dated April 3,1900.

Application filed September 1| 1898. Serial No. 690,060. (No model.)

T0 all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, KINcHEoN W. I-IAR- GROVE, of the town ofBreckenridge, in the county of Stephens and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ohurns, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to chu rns in general, and more particularly tothat class comprising a body portion having a reciprocatory dasher andprovided with means for automatically operating the dasher, the objectof the invention being to provide a construction in which access ofobjectionable matter to the churn-body will be prevented.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of achurn-motor'constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 isaside elevation of the same.

Like numerals and letters of reference designate corresponding parts inboth figures of the drawings.

The churn in the present instance comprises a body portion (shownpartially in full lines and partially in dotted lines in Fig. l of thedrawings) and which churn-body has an opening in its top. Within thebody portion is disposed a dasher, comprising a rod T, upon which aremounted upper and lower dashers 8 and 9, provided withreversely-inclined blades and adapted for rotation upon the rod inopposite directions, whereby the contents of the churn-body will bethoroughly agitated. The dashers are spaced apart by a sleeve 9, and asleeve or collar 7 is located above the upper.dasher to hold it againstupward movement.

In connection with the churn above described there is employed anoperating mechanism, as follows:

l and 2 designate front and rear sides of a supportingframe which isdesigned to be mounted on a table or other elevated support, as clearlyillustrated in'Fig. l of the accompanying drawings. The sides 1 and 2,which are provided at their lower ends with horizontal arms or baseportions, are connected at that point by oppositely-disposed lower rods4, and the upper ends of the sides, which are provided withsubstantially-semicircular heads, are connected at opposite sides byupper. transverse rods 3, the terminals lof the rods?) and 4 beingthreaded and provided with nuts. The substantially-semicircular topportions of the sides ofthe frame consist of upwardly-diverging arms anda curved connecting portion, which is arched over the space between thearms.

Between the sides of the frame is journaled a winding-shaft a", Awhichhas keyed or otherwise secured to it a drum 5, and wound around the drum5 is a pair of cords or ropes having weights w attached to their outerends. g. The cords or ropes diverge upwardly from the drum and pass overpulleys I-I, mounted on the upper rods 3 of the supporting-frame, andthe outer portions of the cords or ropes depend from these pulleys andare provided with hooks 6. The Weights -w are made up of sections P, sothat the desired weight may be employed to cause the motor to churneither fast or slow. AThe hooks 6 engage eyes or openings of verticalbars R', which are provided with supporting-plates L at their lowerends, and the weight-sections P, which are slotted to receive the barR', are arranged on the supporting-plate L, as clearly illustrated inFig. l of the accompanying drawings.

A gear-wheel A is mounted on the horizontal winding-shaft and isconnected with the same-by a clutch, consisting of a pawl g and aratchet-wheel d, the ratchet-wheel d being fixed to the winding shaftand the pawl, which is engaged by a spring 12, being carried by thegear-wheel A. The gear-wheel A meshes with a pinion c of a train ofgearswhich connect the winding-shaft with the drive-shaft D. The piniona is keyed or otherwise secured to a horizontal shaft B, which carries agear-wheel Z7. y The said pinion ais located at the rear of the frame,and the gearwheel b, which is arranged at the front of the frame,mesheswith a pinion S of a countershaft C. The counter-shaft C isconnected with the drive-shaft by means of a gear-wheel aand a pinion R,arranged as clearly illustrated in Fig.' 2 of the accompanying drawings.

The drive-shaft D carries Aa crank-wheel c, provided with a wrist-pinand connected to the lower end of a pitman f. The upper end IOO of thepitman f is adjust-ably connected by means of a series of perforationsand a pin J with the vertically-1eciplocating dasher-i'od T. Thedasher-rod T is mounted in upper and lower guides. The upper guide A iscomposed of sections and is secured bybolts 7L or other suitablefastening devices to the front of the frame. The lower guide F, which.is provided with asleeve E, is composed of separable sections bolted tothe bottom of the front side of the frame by fastening devices n. Thesleeve E is designedto support a suitable screen to exclude flies anddust from the contents of a churn-body. This screen,

as shown, is drawn tightly around the sleeve adjacent its lower end andis then taken over

